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Clare Briggs
Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.
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Moving Picture of a Handy Man Around the House
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Somebody is Always Taking the Joy out of Life
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I know the term from the famous Marx Bros* movie but I never knew until looking it up now that ‘duck soup’ was a slang term for an easy opponent or easy job.
*which I have never seen so that is probably a large part of my ignorance.Report
I’ve seen that one about a dozen times (it doesn’t age!) and I had no idea that that was a slang term.
But of course it is.Report
Also fun fact WGN is of course not the TV station but it’s also not a radio station yet, (not until the 1920’s) – it’s the original source of the moniker Worlds Greatest Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune.Report
Lastly someone crossed the timestreams between Briggs, Pat Hughes, and Derek the Die Workwear guy.Report